Army of Two: No EU-US play for 360

Apparently EU gamers are getting a version of Army of Two that differs enough from the US version that there will be NO intercontinental play.

From the article: "Details are sketchy at the moment, but players across Europe are writing in to tell us that their copies of Army of Two will not interface with their American friends. The game shows up in XBL as Army of Two (EU) and attempts to connect across the pond have, so far, come up fruitless....(continues)"

[sonarus]

lol i remember last yr ppl were saying ps3 couldn't do global internet play so resistance and motorstorm had to update their servers to make this possible.

[Maddens Raiders]

I love playing people from other countries and this is too good a game to be resticted only to one's own territory. Oh well, hope they can get it ironed out in the future and that it doesn't affect the region-free PS3. WOW - another brilliant maneuver by the "good guys" at EA. Jeesh.

[JSA-Gamer]

I didn't realize just how many of my friends this affects until this article.. Like a quarter of my friends list is EU... mostly UK.

Wow... I'm 1/4 British online!

[gameraxis]

not to mention it seems like the online_blows. graphics arn't downgraded online but i can't hear my partner (in chicargo, from boston) doing the campaign co-op. And why the hell do we need to sign into EA.net from our ps3's in order to play online, that extra travelling is probably the problem. EA in my opinion has a really good game here and they NEED to fix the online FAST. I won't be surprised if they make a second, i hope they do, and that one will probably be the AAA game this was supposed to be... opinions???

[JSA-Gamer]

Would the sequel be called.... Army of 3? Or Army of Tu-tu?

[sonarus]

Yea i havn't tried the coop myself but being an ea game i am not suprised with the quality of the voice chat. I can't wait for resistance which promises voice quality as clear as cell phones plus 60 player online plus 8 player coop plus best shooter of the yr lol

[Guwapo77]

I was thinking:

Army of Two: The Second Cumming - B!tches!
Starring Dave Chappelle

Skeet Skeet Skeet

*edit* maybe I should take this ----->>>

[gameraxis]

my guess would be something with a phrase.

"Army of two: against all odds"

The cliche thing to do would be introduce a third (even a girl, that has that overrated bad ass rap to her[which i cannot stand]) OOOhhh i hope they don't go in that direction.

[LGFreedom]

Oh great.. I got this SPECIFICALLY for the purpose of playng with my friend in Spain. Why on Earth would they need to do this? Which COontinent is getting screwed, if the games aren't identical? DAR!

[t-0_ot-]

Is this a server problem or a problem cause by the 360's region lock or whatever??

[kornbeaner]

Thats what you get when you have to rely on P2P service and not dedicate servers, like Warhawk, Motorstorm and Resistance, another way in which MS has handicapped the market. Larger install base means you get your way and the MS way is $50 P2P. The Sony way is free dedicated servers for their games.

[Guitarded]

It's the developers/publishers choice to use P2P or dedicated servers. Frontlines:Fuel of War uses dedicated severs and has a higher player cap than any other LIVE game. Do you know how many? Look it up. All EA games use servers as well on LIVE. Silly fanboy, Trix are for kids. About the article, EA sucks and they should be boycotted by everyone or they will suck the life out of gaming. Stop buying EA games until they curb their greed and quit screwing with gamers.

[perseus]

Maybe Army of Two is done this way in order to maintain good pings for everyone?

Edit: Whoops. I should read. I thought this was PS3 as well.

[JSA-Gamer]

From page 6 of the EU version game manual.

"“NOTE: The online game modes in Army of Two are not cross region compatible and are only supported between PAL discs”"

Nuts.

[Hannah Montana]

The power of xbox live

[InYourMom]

You know that EA hosts their own servers for both the 360 and PS3 right?

Your troll=fail!

[Kleptic]

So this does or doesn't effect the PSN?...the PS3 doesn't have any regional locking right?...so does that make the discs identical, except for localization?

and InYourMom...EA hosts dedicated servers for both networks?...thats pretty impressive, but you are the only one I ever heard say that...

if this is true though...that sucks for me...I was probably only going to rent this game anyway, with GTAIV and MGS4 right around the corner, I have zero time for this...but like half my friends list is from Europe I think...and from what I can tell only those European dudes are playing Army of Two so far...

[name]

I'm sure this can be fixed with an update. Put down your torches.

[solar]

anyway you slice it it sucks for 360 gamers. hope ya guys get a patch. playing with friends > playing without friends.

[kewlkat007]

developers would be pushing 4-Player Co-Op like Halo 3, Too human, and Haze will be. I think it's time to do 4-player Minimum now in shooters and such. That's why we have Online.

Like someone said, I better see Army of 4 if there is a Sequal. I have to give this game a rental. If I like, then I'll buy.

[Kleptic]

its not numbers that always make things better...if they add something different to the gameplay, 2 players is fine...

like how Resistance2 is supporting up to 8 player co-op...but is apparently running an entire story along with it (its not just playing through the same single player game with friends)...its a seperate campaign entirely...stuff like that makes things better...but if Resistance 2 was just allowing 7 others to join you for the co-op'ing of the same single player campaign...whats the point?...

[jcfilth]

I was just talking to a friend and he said it is about 4 to 5 hours long and that he can't play on-line for some unknown reason.And that the last Boss is just plain stupid.But graphics are greate, he said!

[Danja]

another INFERIOR multi plat game on the 360...how the tables have turned.

[bumnut]

this is not because of p2p!!!!!!

it is a 2 player game!!!!!!!!

also, sony won't setup dedicated servers for a 2 player coop game, that would be a waste of resources

EDIT: this comment was meant for number 5.

[le killer]

but it should be an option though. god, i'm from the uk, and the frustration of being put in an american hosted gane on the likes of cod4 and halo is beyond compare. i have'nt played halo 3 since october because of it, and i can see cod4 going the same way after the patch. the other day i was playing crap game after crap game on american hosted bouncy laggy rubbish. some games were taking a quarter of the mag before the shots were registering with the p90.

now there's 11 million subs on live, and there's plenty of people playing in every region, it would be easy to fill games even with region filtering.

and i'm sure there's plenty of american gamers who feel the same when they are put in uk housted matches....not to mention, how nice it is on the ears when i don't have to play american teens! i've got a few good american guys on friend list, but they are all well out of their teens, and are much more mature.

so yeah, i think it could be a good thing if it's done correctly. or if you are give the choice. ea have probably done it because they've created a game that plays so bad on line, and is so latent, that blocking the regions was the only way of making it work..

i won't find out because i won't give ea my money.

[mariusmal]

this sucks big time. my best online friends are north americans.... now i can't play with them bah. and btw... there way more north americans online, so im stuck playing in europe and praying for someone to jump in.

how about me make an online petition ?

[cobhatecrew]

i dont really mind, since i too have had some laggy cross sea players in cod4 and the likes. just as long as there is enough players playing in north america so it doesnt seem like noone is playing the game.
Overall the game is pretty good, ive had a couple issues with the mics not working but i think they ironed that out

[cow moolester]

I'm sorry but last time I checked more games on Ps3 had this than 360. This is one game on 360 compared to many on the Ps3. On Motorstorm I can only play on PAL Servers.

Danja do yourself a favour and go outside. The initial shock of there being a world outside the internet may shock you but its true. It has graphics that the Cell can only dream of achieving and runs in a smooth 60FPS. Although your version of Life will be different as it won't have ANY Multiplayer...you'll need some real life friends for that...